Do symlinks "exist"? (sh, ksh, /bin/test documentation ambiguity)

I expect it's old, old news to those with more shell scripting scars: but the results of the [ -e ] test are at variance with my allegedly reasonable reading of the documentation. For all three of sh, ksh, and the /bin/test manpages, the description of the -e test reads "file exists", unlike the

Re: Pre-orders for our releases

Kevin wrote: > Part of the cost savings is that there is no need for a per-machine > license, so the company purchases one copy of each release CD set. However, the CDs themselves are *not* freely copyable (FAQ 3.3 and interminable misc@ discussions refer); so for business use it seems unremar

Re: Good boot and run on ancient laptop (HP Omnibook 5000), 16MB RAM

Martin Reindl, reading only what I actually posted, was moved to say > ... your laptop does not seem to have audio(4) hardware anyway. Yeah. You see, a cosmic ray came and interfered with the posting of my dmesg, such that the SMTP server caught a "." prematurely, and the TCP seqnums all magic

Good boot and run on ancient laptop (HP Omnibook 5000), 16MB RAM

Unearthed an ancient laptop recently, intending to add it to the collection of 'near-transparent' logging bridges available. Keen-eyed dmesg readers will note the massive 16MB of RAM, and the absence of a floppy device (though the controller is found) - and a Pentium old enough to need the F00F

Re: Simple question about appletalk

Bryan Irvine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If the laptop only needs www access no appletalk is needed. Appletalk > is purely a file serving mechanism, like samba or nfs. If you need > appletalk it's pretty easy to set up on OpenBSD. Well... Appletalk itself is a lower-level protocol than samba

Double 4-port NIC happiness

I've just brought 3.8-RELEASE up on an oldie-but-goody machine - ASUS P3B-F - into which a total of 10 NICs have been thrust. 4 are on an Adaptec AHA-62044, whose NICs get named sf0 .. sf3 (note that as per the i386 info at http://www.openbsd.org/i386.html, these are recognised by the GENERIC k

Re: OT: wrt OpenBSD, what's a good laptop

The Thinkpads do have a good reputation for xBSD, and I picked up a good condition T30 which runs both NetBSD and OpenBSD without major drama, from a UK corporate left-over outfit called ITClear - www.itclear.co.uk. They were very helpful when the battery didn't charge as it should - sent a seco

brconfig: documentation bug? ease-of-use tweak? or luser wanting too much handholding?

Just revived an aging laptop (details at end) for occasional use as a logging/filtering bridge. Went through the brconfig man page once I had two NICs in the box. man brconfig has in its Examples section (in both 3.7 and Current) the encouraging text Create a bridge pseudo network device: